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Francis Parkman

"In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth."

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.286, Library of America

Francis Parkman

#Character Quotes #Race Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.”
“When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.”
“I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.”
“No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.”
“Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012
“Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.”
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”

"In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth."

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